MPs visit disputed Svay Rieng border

1,949 monks, hundreds of nuns and dozens of legislators joined in a public ceremony in Phnom Penh June 5 to call for the return of Kampuchea Krom. The ceremony is to remind Khmers of the loss of what is now south Vietnam, which nationalists say was given to that country by France in 1949.

Ning Aun says her farmland was handed down to her through three generations, after

her great-grandparents began farming the fields in the now-contested border area

with Vietnam.

She is one of six families living in the middle of 100 hectares of rice fields. Their

attempts to grow rice, she said, have been stymied by the Vietnamese authorities

who are trying to lay claim to it.

"Every rainy season we are confronted by them," Aun told the Post May 31.

She said not a day passed when she was not worried for her safety.

Aun spoke of her problems as a parliamentary delegation led by Princess Norodom Vacheara,

who heads the National Assembly's foreign affairs commission, visited the area to

investigate claims of Vietnamese land-grabs. The May 30-31 visit was the first by

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